2 Inmates Appeal Sentences

June 25, 1987

TALLAHASSEE -- Two death row inmates from Broward County appealed to Gov. Bob Martinez and his Cabinet on Wednesday to reduce their death sentences for murder convictions.

Daniel Lee Doyle, Lloyd Duest and three other convicted Florida killers appealed to the panel, which did not rule immediately on their requests for commuting the sentences from death to life in prison.

Duest was convicted of the Feb. 15, 1982, stabbing of John Pope Jr., and Doyle was convicted of the Sept. 5, 1981, rape and strangling of Pamela Kipp.

At his trial, a dozen of Duest`s relatives testified that he was in Watertown, Mass., the night that Pope, a retired insurance salesman, was found stabbed to death. Witnesses in Fort Lauderdale, however, said they saw Duest, 34, meet Pope at a local bar on the day of Pope`s death.

Doyle, 27, was convicted of raping and killing Kipp, 18, his third cousin, after doing yard work outside the young woman`s house. Prosecutors said Doyle followed Kipp from her home in Miramar when she went jogging and attacked her in a wooded thicket.

Three mental health experts testified at Doyle`s trial that he suffered from organic brain damage.